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Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States: Crossing the Line.(Book review)

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Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States: Crossing the Line. By Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. [301 p. ISBN 0754604616. $79.95.] Index, bibliography, discography, webliography.

As Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner notes in her introductory overview of the history of publishing about women and music, this history contains lacunae regarding avant-garde women composers, particularly of the post-World War II period. Her recent Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States makes great headway in filling these gaps and is the most substantial publication to date to investigate the achievements of women composers of ...

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